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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"heroics"”.
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
This thesis explores the representation of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in four epic poems spanning the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, investigating how the politico-historical conditions of early modern Spain and Mexico gave rise to varying concepts of heroism. Through an …
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Heroics and humanism: A study of intra-genre divergence within modern French fantasy literature
This study explores the manner in which modern French fantasy novels have diverged from the Tolkienian, high-fantasy precedent established in the late 90s and the very early 2000s. From 2010–2020, authors Jean-Philippe Jaworski, Justine Niogret, Pierre Pevel, and Claire Duvivier have re-imagined …
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Bourgeois heroics: Commercial anxieties and the rise of the mercantile hero in the early modern period
Bourgeois Heroics analyzes the increasing influence of an emergent middle class upon literary production, demonstrating a growing cultural trend away from an heroism associated with moral fortitude and noble birth (embodied in contemporary notions of the "courtier") towards one characterized by …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
This thesis explores structures of melancholy in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and …
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The Effectiveness of Allied Airborne Units on D-Day
… veterans wrote their memoirs proclaiming their heroics and efficiency. Historians of the modern era have altered their perception of the paratroopers and now tend to investigate their heroics rather than the objectives they were given while stationed in France. The actions of the paratroopers on …
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Mediating War in Early Modern German Prose
… upon which war stories had long been based: heroics. While modern historians still debate the quantitative impact of gunpowder technology on society, early modern authors and eyewitnesses were in unanimous agreement: Gunpowder changed the way they thought about war. At the same time, an …
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Shadow of Death: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of the Floyd Collins Tragedy
… story—a story filled with drama, suspense, and heroics. Because of these characteristics, the rhetoric of the Floyd Collins ordeal lent itself to examination using Bormann's (1972) fantasy theme method. By using a fantasy theme analysis to explore the saga, I advanced beyond the retellings and …
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The Perpetuation of a Myth: The Relief of Major General Ralph C. Smith During the Battle of Saipan (June 1944)
… Sherrod of Time, wrote articles about Marine heroics while often criticizing the Army. Concerning Ralph Smith’s dismissal and the performance of the 27<sup>th</sup> at Saipan, Sherrod’s humiliating articles carry great responsibility for sparking the "Smith v. Smith" controversy. The ongoing …
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Flattery as a Concern in Three Selected Works of Geoggrey Chaucer
… Muscatine says that "through tragedy, eloquence, heroics, science, court flattery, courtly love, domesticity, dreams, scholarship, authority, antifeminism, patient humility and rural hullabaloo, there is scarcely a Chaucerian topic that is excluded from its purview and its criticism." But along …
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Architectural conventions and contextual cognition
… The persistent emphasis on the heroics of professional concepts over cultural ones additionally tends to manifest an evaporation of urban fabric, as well as, an importantly local sense of a community's developmental history. The marvelous intuition of the diagram should be …
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BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?
… enough to offer critiques of officer elite heroics with the decline of deference, and to be more open in its depictions of women. These findings demonstrate that as a collection of primary documents, the genre's films reveal much about contemporaneous issues. Significantly, although its …